Italian Irrigation: Historical and descriptive.-v. 2. Practical and legislativeBlackwood, 1855 |
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Side 18
... regulating bridges are twenty - one feet in breadth , from four to five in depth , and usually six inches thick , bound together by massive iron bars , and necessarily of great weight . Any one who has seen these manœuvred by a party of ...
... regulating bridges are twenty - one feet in breadth , from four to five in depth , and usually six inches thick , bound together by massive iron bars , and necessarily of great weight . Any one who has seen these manœuvred by a party of ...
Side 22
... regulate the slope of the channel . Two forms of construction were em- ployed - one exactly similar to that in use with us , in which the face of the fall has the form of an ogee , with revetment walls carried some distance down the ...
... regulate the slope of the channel . Two forms of construction were em- ployed - one exactly similar to that in use with us , in which the face of the fall has the form of an ogee , with revetment walls carried some distance down the ...
Side 49
... regulate its demands by the propor- tionate value established by the survey , has farther bound itself to alter , in no way whatever , its demands for a period VOL . I. D of thirty years ; and the general conviction of the.
... regulate its demands by the propor- tionate value established by the survey , has farther bound itself to alter , in no way whatever , its demands for a period VOL . I. D of thirty years ; and the general conviction of the.
Side 63
... regulating the excessive slope of the country ; the same irregularity in the distribution of the fall , which caused alternations of rapids with almost still water ; the same rough but massive old works of various kinds ; and the same ...
... regulating the excessive slope of the country ; the same irregularity in the distribution of the fall , which caused alternations of rapids with almost still water ; the same rough but massive old works of various kinds ; and the same ...
Side 64
... regulating bridge across the canal at the head , the weir and escapes serving to dispose of flood - waters ; and the bed was hard , strong , compact gravel , well calculated to resist the current . After examining these various works ...
... regulating bridge across the canal at the head , the weir and escapes serving to dispose of flood - waters ; and the bed was hard , strong , compact gravel , well calculated to resist the current . After examining these various works ...
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Italian Irrigation: Historical and descriptive.-v. 2. Practical and legislative Richard Baird Smith Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1855 |
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
Adda adverted Agogna agricultural Ajmeer amount annual annum APPENDIX aqueduct area of irrigation basin Bereguardo branches breadth bridges Caluso Canal Martesana canal of Caluso canals of irrigation carried Cassano channel Cigliano Colonel commenced connected constructed crops cubic feet cubic foot cultivation Delhi derived discharge distribution districts drainage effect embankment engineers escape established estimated executed existing expense extent feet per second floods Ganges canal head increase India interest irrigation irrigation in acres Ivrea Lago lake Lambro land Langosco latter left bank length locks Lodi Lombardy Ludovico Sforza Mairwara marcite masonry means ment Milan Milanese Muzza navigation Naviglio Grande Naviglio Interno nearly Northern Italy Oglio outlets Pavia Piedmont population portion proprietors province of Novara provinces quantity regulating rent revenue right bank river season Sesia slope sluices soil square miles stream supply of water Sutlej Ticino tion tract unirrigated valley villages volume Western Jumna canals whole
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Side 435 - is a somewhat costly work, reckoning it only by its paper ; but upon its paper is stamped an amount of knowledge that could scarcely be acquired without the reading of as many books as would cost seven times the price."— Examiner.
Side 309 - Zemindars were thus ministered to, the comfort of travellers was not forgotten; and it is directed, " that on both sides of the canal, down to Hissar, trees of every description, both for shade and blossom, be planted, so as to make it like the canal under the tree...